hello,
I’m interested in setting up a jellyfin server that will only serve streams to TVs on my LAN. Files will be on an existing NAS. Usage will be low (probably just one stream at a time); cheap and reliable is the name of the game, and cheap includes power consumption. I am thinking of some kind of NUC but don’t know enough about jellyfin yet to decide on specs. Any recommendations for a specific NUC model or CPU/GPU? I assume I will be running linux - any distro recommendations?
Thin clients are the best for this. You can take your pick on an abundant of options on eBay.
Jellyfin isn’t that power hungry, and it would run on a rPi if you set it up right. You’re only problems are when it decides to transcoder file and you can get around that by using Kodi with the jellyfin add-on. (And choosing the native paths option. Kodi grabs all the data via, SMB, NFS, etc)
This way you can use Jellyfin as a media enrichment solution, not worry about the CPU or GPU encoding and just worry about watching everything.